Seahawks Primary Logo
The Seattle Seahawks were first established as an NFL expansion team in 1974. Their first season was in 1976. The Seahawks were among the first few teams that have played in the NFC and the AFC.
In its first season in the league, the team played in the NFC West. After that, the Seattle Seahawks became part of the AFC West from 1977-2001. In 2002, the Seahawks would become a part of the NFC West and are still part of that division.
It is safe to say that the Seattle Seahawks have had a great deal of success during their tenure as an NFL franchise. The Seattle Seahawks have won 11 division championships. 2 of them were won as an AFC team, while 9 of them were won as an NFC team. The franchise has won three conference championships. (2005, 2013, 2014)
The Seahawks would win their only Super Bowl in 2013 by demolishing the Denver Broncos 43-8. They were led mainly by the above-average play of their secondary that was affectionately known as “The Legion of Boom.”
Great players such as Walter Jones, Russell Wilson, Cortez Kennedy, and Steve Largent have played for this great franchise.
It is only fitting that the Seahawks have a logo history page that Seahawk fans can be proud of.
In 1976, the Seattle Seahawks’ first primary logo was the head of an osprey with royal blue and forest green color schemes. Other than some modifications with regard to the color scheme and the ferociousness of the osprey, this logo has had tremendous staying power.
2012 - Present
The new logo replaces the Seahawk blue with wolf grey. The Seattle Seahawks logo is comprised of the face of a sea hawk with the eyes, beak and the neck artistically illustrating the team’s quest for glory, pride and success. The fierce glare in the eyes of the Seattle Seahawks logo is basically derived from the Egyptian mythology where a falcon enjoyed a superior place in the hieroglyphs.
2002 - 2011
In March 1, 2002, to coincide with the team moving to the NFC the logo was heavily redesigned. The logo was designed by NFL Properties in-house design team. The colors were modified to a lighter “Seahawks Blue”, a darker “Seahawks Navy” and lime green piping. The logo artwork was also subtly altered, with an arched eyebrow and a forward-facing pupil suggesting a more aggressive-looking bird.
1976 - 2001
When the Seahawks debuted in 1976, the team’s logo was a stylized royal blue and forest green osprey’s head based on Northwestern tribal art.
The mask that inspired the Seahawks logo
During the past few years, people have been speculating about the design influence for the Seattle Seahawks team logo, but until recently the fact that the mask that inspired the designers had been publicly identified in a 1975 Newspaper article had been forgotten(1).
At the time of the 1975 logo design, the central and northern Northwest Coast art (traditional to the Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian and Kwakwaka’wakw tribes of Alaska and northern British Columbia) were the most readily recognized design styles from the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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